A week-long hands-on laboratory training workshop was held in Malaysia in June focusing on methods for the identification of Salmonella and Campylobacter in food. Future events in partnership with the Ministry of Health of Malaysia will be open to private industry.

The “Methods of Identification for Shiga-toxin Producing E. coli” course offered by the International Food Safety Training Laboratory at JIFSAN concluded its five days of training on Friday, October 3. The course taught students the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recommended methods for the analysis of E.coli.

Those who have come to the the IFSTL know that we always request a "transfer plan", i.e. a structured plan to either deploy a method learned in the training or to propagate the training received. Teddie had planned the latter and had been trying to achieve his goal for over 2 years. Perseverance and networking paid off and Teddie tells us his story.

College Park, Dec. 12-13, 2013.
Presentation during APEC workshopJIFSAN hosted the regional workshop on laboratory capacity building entitled: "Framework for Self-Assessment of Laboratory Capacity Building Needs and Prioritization".

Dr. Richard Besser, ABC News Chief Health and Medical Editor returns to the International Food Safety Training Laboratory (IFSTL) at the University of Maryland to determine which greeting spreads the most germs during flu season.

Dr. Daniel Fabricant, director of FDA's Division of Dietary Supplement Programs, will present the opening lecture of the upcoming course "Microscopic and Chemical Methods of Identification of Botanicals and Contaminants in Dietary Supplements" on Feb. 3-6, 2014

Dr. Irene Chan from FDA office in Beijing, Evid Liu from the FDA office in Guangzhou, Dr. Astrid Szeto from FDA's Office of International Programs and Dr. Nirupa Sen from the New Dehli office were accompanied by Dr. Jin Park Young and Dr. Steven Robs of CFSAN for their visit of the new IFSTL site.

JIFSAN’s International Food Safety Training Laboratory has received a grant from the USDA Emerging Markets Program that will support the participation of analysts from select countries in a workshop of mycotoxins analysis. We will offer two opportunities to participate, one in November 2014 and one in March 2015. Each participant will attend a single one of these workshops.

Each year the symposium focuses on a different topic associated with state-of-the-art food science and technology. The topic of the 2012 event is "New developments in food science: realising the potential of 'omics' technologies".

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December 14, 2011 at 9:27 am

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